The Plot to Destroy America's Beer

[Goober McTuber]

Probably won't bother Whitey in the least.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... as-beer#p1

[Mace]

Probably won't bother Whitey in the least.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... as-beer#p1

Probably not. Me either.

[Goober McTuber]

Probably won't bother Whitey in the least.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... as-beer#p1

Probably not. Me either.

No way a sheep-fucking bumpkin from Iowa read that article in 6 minutes.

[mvscal]

The old Anheuser-Busch insisted on using whole grains of rice in its beer. AB InBev was fine with the broken kind. “Our purchasing of rice has to do with how fresh the rice is, not whether it is whole or broken,” says Vallis.

A former top AB InBev executive, who declined to be identified because he didn’t want to get in trouble with his old employer, tells a different story. He says the company saved about $55 million a year substituting cheaper hops in Budweiser and other U.S. beers for more expensive ones like Hallertauer Mittelfrüh. It is hard to say whether the average Bud drinker has noticed.

[Mace]

Probably won't bother Whitey in the least.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... as-beer#p1

Probably not. Me either.

No way a sheep-fucking bumpkin from Iowa read that article in 6 minutes.

I was on a smoke break after mounting my favorite ewe. Thirty seconds on.....6 minutes off.

[Mikey]

Probably won't bother Whitey in the least.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... as-beer#p1

Read the first couple of pages about the Becks thing. This is not exactly news.

Miller did the same thing with Loewenbrau back in the 70s, when they started making it in Canada.

I pretty much stopped drinking corporate "beer" years ago.

[Wolfman]

Loewenbrau
Was a pretty damn good beer when it was really imported from the Fatherland.

[mvscal]

Miller did the same thing with Loewenbrau back in the 70s, when they started making it in Canada.

Nolan...you're a genius.



Are you some kind of asshole or something? Who gives a fuck about quality when you have a snappy ad campaign? Do you think you are better than those sophisticated steak house patrons? Fuck you, motherfucker! Lowenbrau is the beer for the man who knows what he wants..

[Truman]

Can't even find Löwenbräu anymore in these parts, which is suprising, given that it too is now an InBev product. The fricken' cold boxes at the local Price Chopper are set to market share and are dominated by InBev brands, while quality imports require a trek to a specialty store.

Have a tendency to agree with the cat that groused about the cheapening of import labels now brewed by InBev domestically. Bought a 4-pack of Boddington's a couple of months back and was ready to pour the lot down the drain after the first couple of pulls. Fuggit. I'll stick to American craft.

[Mikey]

Loewenbrau
Was a pretty damn good beer when it was really imported from the Fatherland.

Yes, it was.

I spent six months in Germany (near Aachen) when I was 19. Our apartment was around the corner from a Loewenbrau restaurant. Schweinshaxe, sauerbraten, bratwurst, loewenbrau (light and dark) on tap. Paradise.

The Kolsch was good too.

[PSUFAN]

If you use rice to make a beverage, then you can't call it beer. Hilarious to read someone bragging about the freshness of the rice.

[Diego in Seattle]

I blame Obama.

[Bizzarofelice]

i blame the fact that they went public with the company.

AB was fat and bloated like so many of their customers. as soon as they went public this was inevitable.

[Dinsdale]

i blame the fact that they went public with the company.

AB was fat and bloated like so many of their customers. as soon as they went public this was inevitable.

You mean in 1980?

So, now that AB is no longer publicly traded, it should be quickly improving, right?


You have earned a :facepalm:.

[Bizzarofelice]

i blame the fact that they went public with the company.

AB was fat and bloated like so many of their customers. as soon as they went public this was inevitable.

You mean in 1980?

So, now that AB is no longer publicly traded, it should be quickly improving, right?


You have earned a :facepalm:.

i worked with AB. know it pretty well. know lots of people in the offices there then and now.

[Dinsdale]

i worked with AB.

In 1980?

[Mikey]

Pretty sure they've been using rice in Budweiser (AB version) for quite some time.

[Dinsdale]

So, now that AB is no longer publicly traded, it should be quickly improving, right?


You have earned a :facepalm:.

Moron.

Anheuser-Busch is still a publicly traded company

You post a link to Inbev as proof that Aneuser-Busch is still publicly traded?

Pure genius.

[War Wagon]

oh great, another beer snob thread.

I'll admit that I was less than thrilled when InBev bought out AB. It'd be like if Toyota bought out GM.

Anybody tried Bud Light Platinum yet? That's some pretty smooth stuff - if you're willing to pay for it. I'll have one on occasion and the wife loves it.

But no, I'm not willing to pay for it, at least not in the vast quantities of Bud Light I consume on a weekly basis. I have slowed down, though. Pancreatitus will do that to a body.

[PSUFAN]

If you use rice to make a beverage, then you can't call it beer.

In Germany this might be true. But not elsewhere.

I guess if we are redefining things like marriage, then why should beer be off the table? We are a nation of innovators after all.